Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
The Riven Udyr synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Udyr, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Riven sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Udyr. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Udyr helps Riven perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Udyr, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Udyr does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Udyr on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Udyr. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Udyr.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Udyr on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Udyr does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Riven that will always be her top teammate. Yet, Udyr is a good ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 52.7%. This signals that there is a good bond between Riven and Udyr that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Udyr has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when arranging Udyr allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Udyr together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Udyr ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Riven in order to work well with Udyr during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Riven and Udyr synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Udyr than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when playing alongside Udyr with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Udyr with Riven are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.